Yeah, used to watch Television programmers reasonably regularly few years ago, hardly watch any of it now except for occasional news.
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Yeah and we all have our preferences etc, but it more about the overall narrative about Sky losing content for various different reasons. Plenty of other people value TVNZ content: The Chase, One News, shows like Happy Valley, Eat Well for Less etc. If you are using SNT hardward to get a bundle of content, it is much more convenient to have all of the content available to you as part of the bundle as opposed to launching another app (in this case TVNZ+).
You guys are welcome to play it down, and I agree that not having TVNZ in and of itself is not 'catastrophic'. But believe me, nobody at Sky will be thinking this is a great outcome. They want people to stay in their universe of content as much as possible - not launching other apps from their platform.
Why, if you had a box or a pod but got to the point you found the majority of time you were just booting up the device so that you can launch NETFLIX, AP, Disney+ or TVNZ+ etc...well you might start to get the idea that you don't really need to pay Sky $85 a month after all!
Review of the new STB by The Spinoff.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/09...dy-for-release
I watched David Attenborough’s Last Day of the Dinosaurs (not a metaphor for Sky!) on Skygo catch-up and almost stopped watching as a result of the number of commercials and self-promotion interspliced in the programme. Almost as bad as TV Three on Demand. At least with TV3 you don’t pay a subscription for it.
Aye, it is an ongoing challenge for the aggregators.
I believe their contracts usually involce some kind of fixed cost per subscriber and/or share of advertising revenue. So a particular partner might say they will only charge 20c per subscriber for their channel, but want x% of ad revenue (otherwise the FCPS would have to be higher).
So Sky's entire business model is reliant on advertising, and it is a model that served them very well for many years.
But now, given you can get Amazon Prime ad-free for $9/month - if you are paying Sky TV $75 per month for their Entertainment package (including the fee to be able to record programmes) you now expect that it should really have zero ads. If you are paying 8 times what you pay for Amazon Prime, it seems cruel to be subjected to so many ads and self promotion.
Even when the streaming services introduce ad tiers, there will still be an option to pay a bit more to be ad free.
Sky will need to conform to this new model in all of their service offerings I think - cheaper ad supported options and premium no ad options. But that would require a complete overhaul of their current business model and the renegotiation of their contracts. Not a small task!
Am I right, is SKY about to close down National Geographic.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/11613...reaming-warner
Interesting. Hbo max pulling shows to cut costs and also to sell to other broadcasters (they mention tubi) to increase revenue.
Good news for Sky TV and other aggregators.
What's wrong with SKT sp ? down almost 8%.
When does the buyback commence? I was told it would be $2.75 by then.
Can't see that the buyback dates have been announced.
In the results announcement in Feb, it said "The Company intends to initiate this Buyback next month as will be communicated to the marketahead of the Buyback commencing." But nothing further has come out.
As for $2.75......:mellow:
Divvy hit the bank a/c today, very nice payout. Just waiting for the buyback announcement now.
Pretty significant volume yesterday, well outside of the norm. Buyback commenced?